11 Years and Counting
Kinda hard to believe this was 11 years ago, or in some ways that it was only 11 years ago. It was my first self-published card game, Invasion of the Saucer People. A Kickstarter paid to replace this retro stock art with new illustrations by an old friend and GDW colleague, Bradley K. McDevitt.

In the 11 years since, a lot of very ki
https://lestersmith.com/2023/08/11-years-and-counting/
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Bookmark Dragon Dice: Shirrah’s 1st Adventure!
For a couple of decades now, I've been telling SFR, Inc. that a Dragon Dice role-playing game was in the offing. I dipped my toe in the water back in 2014, with a setting chapter in the D6xD6 RPG launch, but I was hoping to expand that further. But too many
https://lestersmith.com/2023/04/bookmark-dragon-dice-shirrahs-1st-adventure/
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Tectonic Shifts of D&D
"The original impetus for the open licensing of the d20 System involved the economics of producing role-playing games (RPGs). Game supplements suffered far more diminished sales over time than the core books required to play the game." Wikipedia, "d20 System"

I think I sorta pissed someone off years ago by making this exact point. My opinion was based on the experie
https://lestersmith.com/2022/12/tectonic-shifts-of-dd/
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